User:Quercus solaris/Perspicuity is perspicuous, but its name isn't
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heterologically useless. It occurred to me that to fix this little motto, you could replace "perspicuity" with "readability", because given read- + ability, anyone can guess more or less what readability is just by looking at its name, and they'll be more or less right. Of course, if you've had enough exposure to romance, you can also see through "perspicuity" almost as well, and those of you who have, and just did, will excuse one more little wink that is cooked into that statement. (Did you see through it?) But anyway, if we did switch to "readability", how would we maintain the snappy alliteration for aphoristic
purposes? I suppose we'd need an "r" word that gets across the meaning of "make" or "achieve". Well, OK then: we could have "realize readability", but I don't entirely like that one, because "realize" means "become aware of" more often than it means "make real".
"Explain plainly", we could say, trading our alliteration for
exposition
, or one might call it all just a pain in the spleen.